How can I transfer photos from my IPhone to my desktop computer?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 19:17 -0400, Bill wrote:
> WS=> First a disclaimer (that doesn't really change things.) The IPhone 
> and Linux computer are not actually mine but belong to a friend that 
> needs technical help.  I am not familiar with any Apple product so I 
> couldn't help.
> 
> From what I can gather, this works with Windows only.  Can the Apple 
> app that you gave a link to also download directly to Linux?  If this is 
> the only way, the computer can dual boot to Windows but this would add 
> another layer of complexity which we would like to avoid.

Hi,

on the iDevic open the photo app, select all photos or as I've done for
testing purpose select just one photo. Chose "Save to File" > AudioShare
Files.
Open AudioShare and move the pic/s to the "iTunes File Sharing" folder.
Then continue with Linux:

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ mkdir ipad
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ideviceinstaller -l | grep -i audioshare
com.kymatica.AudioShare, "131", "AudioShare"
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ifuse --documents com.kymatica.AudioShare ipad/
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl ipad/
total 1.7G
drwxr-xr-x 8 rocketmouse rocketmouse  256 Mar 22 20:07  AudioLayer_since_2019-03
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 737K Mar 22 12:25 'AUM Recordings.zip'
drwxr-xr-x 7 rocketmouse rocketmouse  224 Aug  4 00:41  digital_d1
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 2.6M Jun 16 10:44  IMG_3100.HEIC
drwxr-xr-x 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse   64 Mar 22 20:06  Inbox
drwxr-xr-x 4 rocketmouse rocketmouse  128 Aug  5 01:30  laplace
drwxr-xr-x 7 rocketmouse rocketmouse  224 Apr 22 19:20  Lichtecho
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 273M Aug 11 01:27  monoceros-ohne_audiobus_ohne_expo.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 273M Aug 10 01:09  monoceros-rid_hi_raw_3.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 273M Aug 10 13:37 ' - monoceros-roxsyn_1_user_(saved_presets).wav'
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 273M Aug  7 06:09  monoceros-roxsyn_1.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 273M Aug 11 00:02 ' - monoceros-roxsyn_2_1024.wav'
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 273M Aug 11 00:46  monoceros_roxsyn_2_übergang.wav
drwxr-xr-x 3 rocketmouse rocketmouse   96 Mar 18 20:17  sample_archive_download_2019-03-18
drwxr-xr-x 6 rocketmouse rocketmouse  192 Mar 17 22:18  sample_archive_downloads_2019-03-17
drwxr-xr-x 8 rocketmouse rocketmouse  256 Mar 22 11:51  samples_freesound_2019-03-20
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cp ipad/IMG_3100.HEIC /tmp/
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ gimp /tmp/IMG_3100.HEIC

Yes, it works :). I haven't done this before. HEIC seems to be the
default format, so there might be the need to use a script to convert
pics automagically to JPEG or PNG.

However, I'm still using VirtualBox with a Windows 7 guest, IOW I'm
using Windows, but I don't have a Windows install on bare metal, it's
just a guest in a VM running on a Linux host, so a reboot isn't needed.

Note, I've got reasons to not install gvfs, but by default almost all
users have got gvfs running on their installs, so consider to follow the
Arch Wiki:

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IOS#Connecting_to_a_device
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IOS#See_also
The second link provides a link to help.ubuntu.com.

The advantage when using a Windows guest in a VM is, that you can make a
backup of each iDevice. I don't use iCloud for good reasons.

Regards,
Ralf